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- From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
- Subject: Re: 74HC4046 help required.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.132039.26487@cs.ucf.edu>
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- Organization: University of Central Florida
- References: <1993Jan6.033742.14845@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 13:20:39 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.033742.14845@news2.cis.umn.edu> Mike Diack
- <mike-d@staff.tc.umn.edu> writes:
- > In article <7116@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> Mark Robinson,
- > mark-r@spec0.ee.man.ac.uk writes:
- > >If anyone has a datasheet for the 74HC4046 PLL chip handy would
- > >you let me know how the frequency of the VCO is related to the
- > >values of R's and C and the max/min values that they can take.
- > >
- > >I want to run it with a lock range of about 1MHz, centred on
- > >8MHz, but the equations in the Maplin catalogue don't allow
- > >frequencies >2.8MHz (R=5k, C=50pF; ie the minimum allowed) even
- > >though they claim the VCO can get up to 15MHz. I think their
- > >data must be for the 4046 and none of our databooks are modern
- > >enough to include the 'HC4046 :-(
- >
- > Something you should be aware of is that all HC4046's are NOT
- > created equal. Two extremes I have found are
- > 1 : An SGS device that was barely able to oscillate at 1 MHz
- > (and the output waveform was triangular at that frequency)
- > and -
- > 2 : An RCA device that was still producing respectable square
- > waves at 10 Mhz
- > (Both devices running into a scope probe only , 5 volt supply)
- >
- > At the frequency you want (8 Mhz) the design nomographs
- > become a bit irrelevant, as internal Cs & Rs dominate the issue.
- >
- > I was driven to using LS124/324s, but i only wanted the vco
- > function, no doubt someone makes a better PLL.
- > cheers,
- Look at the Signetics NE564 - son of the old 560/1/2 . It is a
- PLL that gets up to about 30 MHz and has a TTL buffered output!
- --
- Thomas Clarke
- Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central FL
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